Shifra Steinberg

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2021

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“The Lady” by Shifra Steinberg

Submitted to Contest #107

Mr. Verdome was one of those annoying characters who seemed to be good at almost everything. With an emphasis on almost, as he was not very good-natured, a characteristic which would have saved him on many an occasion, had he possessed it. He did have a talent for all kinds of useless things though: solving equations, painting, writing, poetry, and best of all, if he saw, lets say, a snail on the sidewalk, he was especially skilled at stepping on it with all his weight, and rubbing it flat down on the concrete floor. His bad character had al...

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“The Artist” by Shifra Steinberg

Submitted to Contest #107

The unbearable thing about living is not so much being but being oneself. God put billions of us into the world and gave us all, as a joke, our own life and morals. The universe never planned on me, or you, only some specimens based on the original model. Like a car, each made of the same essential central engineering. The only difference being the license plate. For a human, the license plate is their face, the accidental and unrepeatable accumulation and assortment of features which reflects neither character nor soul.   My face is a ...

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Author bio

Short story writer. Article writer about the absurdity of life in general. My novel, Imaginary Order, will be out next year. https://shifra.substack.com/